Meet the 2026 Selectors
Leonie Bradley
Leonie Bradley is an artist, Editor of Printmaking Today and a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. She has an expanded printmaking practice including installation, animation and artist’s books. She is currently exploring digital technologies, such as AI-generated art, through traditional, analogue print techniques. Her work is held in international collections including: V&A, Ashmolean, Terra: Sustainability Pavilion in UAE, Zuckerman Museum of Art in USA and Central Academy of Fine Art in China.
Printmaker and editor of Printmaking Today
EVEWRIGHT
EVEWRIGHT is a British multi-disciplinary artist of Jamaican parentage whose work reclaims public spaces for Black British narratives. Through a "mash-up" of drawing, sculpture, digital film, and live installation, he explores the intricate connections between the body, modern environments, and socio-political histories. Using both urban and rural landscapes as his canvas, EVEWRIGHT creates interactive "mirrors" that instigate vital conversations regarding identity and collective memory.
Multidisciplinary Artist
Textile ArtistRichard McVetis
Richard McVetis (b.1983 South Africa ) studied at Manchester School of Art and the Royal College of Art, where he now works as Interim Co-Head of Programme of MA Textiles. His practice explores the language of time, process, and material through textiles and drawing. Richard’s work has been shown widely in the UK and internationally, including exhibitions at Arnolfini, the British Textile Biennial, Kettle’s Yard, Make Hauser & Wirth and the Design Museum. Recent awards include Bronze at the Cheongju Craft Biennale in South Korea, an A-N Bursary (2025), and a Cove Park Awarded residency (2025/26).
Jane Ponsford
Artist and Papermaker
Jane Ponsford is one of only a few artist-papermakers in the UK. She exhibits widely (Oriel Myrddin, Make, Hauser & Wirth, Sarah Myserscough Gallery, The New Craftmaker, Ruthin and Gallery 57) and has taught papermaking in a variety of settings ranging from The British Museum to galleries like Towner, Ditching Museum of Art + Crafts and out in the landscape with organisations such as Surrey Hills Arts, West Dean College, Stroud International Textiles / Select Festival and Hole & Corner Magazine. She has recently been selected for the Homo Faber Guide and is a member of IAPMA, the International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists
Jane is an artist based in London and South East England. She works using repetitive processes, constructing sculptural forms made up of hundreds of near identical fragments to make bookworks, sculpture and installations. Her current preoccupation is with materiality and process in response to place.
ArtistNatasha Michaels
Natasha Michaels studied communication design at Central St Martins College of Art and at the Royal College of Art ,where she spent her time Printmaking. Her work is in museum collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Pallant House Holburne Museum and the Chippenham Museum origins of Natasha Michaels monoprints lie in historical paintings from the renaissance to the 19th century. Exploring and reinterpreting traditional conventions and genres, Michaels’ work is an investigation of her own ambivalence towards the originals. At once subverting and celebrating, she recasts and directs the sitters, reimagining them as fictional characters.
The Partners
Parker Harris are delighted to work in partnership with Guildford Borough Council to support this annual opportunity for artists nationwide to show their work at Guildford House Gallery.
